Introduction

The JavaScript Client Libraries provide a suite of JavaScript Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to build Solid applications. Solid applications refer to applications that conform to the Solid specifications .

Inrupt’s JavaScript Client Libraries

Inrupt’s JavaScript Client Libraries provide APIs, such as for read/ write/authenticate/access management operations, that conform to the Solid specifications.

Library	Description
solid-client	A client library for accessing data stored in Solid Pods.
solid-client-authn	A set of libraries for authenticating to Solid identity servers: solid-client-authn-browser for use in a browser. solid-client-authn-node for use in Node.js.
solid-client-notifications	A client library for subscribing to change notifications. Alpha Release
vocab-common-rdf	A library that provides convenience objects for many RDF-related identifiers, such as the Person and familyName identifiers from the Schema.org vocabulary from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!
vocab-solid-common	A library that provides convenience objects for many Solid-related identifiers.
vocab-inrupt-common	A library that provides convenience objects for Inrupt-related identifiers.

Getting Started

To get started using these libraries, see the following pages in the documentation:

Getting Started: Part 1	Create an application that uses the libraries to read data from your Solid Pod.
Getting Started: Part 2	Create an application that uses the libraries to write data to your Solid Pod.

Browser Support

The JavaScript Client Libraries support the latest 2 stable releases of the following browsers:

Desktop	Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Microsoft Edge Apple Safari
Mobile	iOS/Safari Android/Chrome Android/Samsung Internet

You can use the libraries in the browser with a bundler like Webpack, Rollup, or Parcel.

Inrupt JavaScript Client Libraries Getting Started: Part 1